Yliaster
@Yliaster@lemmy.world
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 6 days ago:
That’s a fallacious argument. It’s like saying using a laptop made in 2026 is the exact same as using a laptop made in 2010 for privacy standards. News flash, it ain’t.
The killswitches in question wouldn’t apply to all new vehicles, or well, they would just be EVs, because they’re planning to ban regular vehicles.
- Comment on Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman 1 week ago:
Not all GPT users are American/residing in America
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 1 week ago:
Them being electric lets companies monitor your vehicles the same way they do monitor your online presence.
You can look up the killswitch thing, it’s planned in Europe iirc.
Any time someone says these “technological advancements” are anything but innocuous, they get rammed as “fear-mongering”.
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 1 week ago:
Gonna get blasted for this, given the overall sentiment here in the comments towards EVs, but EVs are going to be used to monitor people everywhere they go and have killswitches, and other shit I’d not wanna deal with.
- Comment on Copilot AI ‘Microslop’ Chat Ban Is Not Censorship—Says Microsoft 1 week ago:
Microslop.
- Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy 1 week ago:
Why is curbing use unideal?
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 1 week ago:
makes sense.
Do you extend this reasoning to corrupt institutions? Eg: people saying, “fuck ice”.
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 1 week ago:
How do you respond to verbal abuse without assuming bad faith?
- Comment on YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are making you dumber, according to science 1 week ago:
Further, self-control and attention span are not measures of intelligence.
You can be restrained and/or have a long attention span and still not be intelligent.
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 1 week ago:
someone says “we should torture indigenous people” how can one glean that they don’t truly believe that?
It’s generally safe to assume they mean it, unless proven otherwise. People make hateful and racist remarks all the time, sadly, and it’s almost invariably a consistent pattern of behaviour that goes beyond plausible deniability. The line of reasoning you’ve provided me reads as strangely apologetic and bordering solipsistic.
I would assume it’s satire
Even if the hateful remarks are understood to be ‘‘a joke’’, I don’t think that’s any less damning. These are not the type of things to joke about, and most reasonable and/or decent people realize that.
It’s been my experience they eventually do. If someone is telling me I look nice and I take it as a genuine compliment, but they’re acting in bad faith, that’s going to drive them up the fucking wall that I’m so dumb that I don’t assume bad faith like they do.
Can you give me an example of something like that playing out on a serious real-life topic such as politics/race/genocide etc?
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 1 week ago:
This is still a fallacious argument because it’s clearly exaggerated/fictitious and nobody argues like this. If it was instead:
A: We should torture indigenous people by killing their offspring in front of them. B: You are acting in bad faith
Is totally acceptable - anyone arguing something like point A is most certainly not engaging in a ‘‘good faith’’ discussion, it’s plain common sense that they aren’t.
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 1 week ago:
People in asia seem to have an infatuation with Russia even before the palestine issue became prominent. It’s sickening.
The only good thing about it I see is that it’s a necessary counter-balance against the US and its imperialism, perhaps.
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 1 week ago:
Yeah hadn’t realized the spanish/portuguese thing, assumed indigenous folk spoke it but I realize it’s usually some different native thing.
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 1 week ago:
I’m glad it’s better over there, because in my [limited] friend group and family, nobody is pro-ukraine.
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 1 week ago:
Ah so the people there are still ethnically brazillian/argentinian right? i.e. the people are indigenous themselves, just not the rulers? or are the majority of people of european descent too?
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 1 week ago:
Argentina and Brazil are colonial entities? Please elaborate, haven’t heard before.
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 1 week ago:
I’m glad I’m finally seeing someone else that’s actually both pro-palestine AND pro-ukraine for once. It’s usually mutually exclusive — I don’t understand why. Literally every single pro-palestine person I’ve seen otherwise has been pretty vocally anti-Ukraine.
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 1 week ago:
The analogy you’re providing is fallacious because unlike nonsensical singular statements about ducks (an ethically neutral statement), what we’re actually getting is people consistently defending various forms of hate that endangers minorities and marginalized people. They rarely, if ever, and it is my opinion that it almost never occurs, respond to reason. People being purposefully obtuse and heartless within discussions do not really deserve logical vigour or effort. You could try, but it’s a waste of time and energy, and it’ll just put one in a bad mood.
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 1 week ago:
I think it’s fair to assume those when people openly support a movement that visibly takes away the rights of marginalized groups and kills innocent people.
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 1 week ago:
Fair.
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 1 week ago:
Even with MAGAts and the wave of red that’s ever-present online?
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 1 week ago:
How do you determine what’s not in good faith?
I would imagine this would tie to values, but do those become the unquestionable object, then?
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 1 week ago:
Should implies a subjective judgment.
- Comment on The people who believe "progressiveness is just a fad that one grows out of" are the same people that grew up getting brainwashed into regressive politics. The belief is only true for them. 1 week ago:
What changed you? If I may ask
- Comment on The people who believe "progressiveness is just a fad that one grows out of" are the same people that grew up getting brainwashed into regressive politics. The belief is only true for them. 1 week ago:
People who can’t engage with logical reasoning or evidence without resorting to intellectual cop-outs to defend their positions can’t be helped.
- Comment on Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon 1 week ago:
My primary concern was that last bit you wrote: e2ee doesn’t necessarily guarantee anything; corporate overlords like Meta has abused it and iirc the British government is starting to fuck with e2ee too.
Does e2ee even mean anything anymore?
- Comment on Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon 2 weeks ago:
Can you (or someone) explain like I’m 5?
- Comment on Texas Republican Primary having a normal one 2 weeks ago:
Are we forgetting we have a literal pedophile as the president?
How about we get that out?
You know what else is a death cult that brutalizes everyone? ICE.
- Comment on I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes 2 weeks ago:
How do you do that?? I want to poison em
- Comment on Our kryptonite 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t even need to be radioactive/kryptonite.
Imagine getting hit down there with a rock. Yeah, I’d call that a weakness.